Teen charged in fatal Halifax stabbing
Stabbing Thursday night was HRM's first homicide of 2012
CBC News
Posted: Feb 3, 2012 6:47 AM AT
Last Updated: Feb 3, 2012 11:23 PM AT
Police were still at the scene Friday morning. (Craig Paisley/CBC)An 18-year-old has been charged with second-degree murder after a 25-year-old man was stabbed to death in Halifax's Fairview neighbourhood on Thursday.
In addition to the murder charge, Aidan David Cromwell has also been charged with two counts of breach of a recognizance. He'll be in custody over the weekend and is expected to appear in Halifax provincial court on Monday.
Officers found the victim at the corner of Ashdale Avenue and Titus Street just before 11:30 p.m. on Thursday. They were responding to a report of a stabbing.
Marc Bernard Tremblay, 25, died soon after paramedics arrived.
Halifax Regional Police Const. Kathryn Willett told CBC News on Friday that the confrontation appeared to have been random and investigators do not believe the victim and the accused knew each other.
Willett declined to reveal the nature of the confrontation or what sparked it. A weapon had been recovered, she said.
Halifax Regional Police said a man and a woman were arrested on Evans Avenue at about 2 a.m. The woman was released from custody Friday afternoon.
A man who did not want to be identified said he heard arguing at the corner of Ashdale Avenue and Titus Street on Thursday night.
"There was a guy and a girl and they were fighting over something, which seemed like she tried to hold him back from going somewhere," he said.
"I got home, I don't live very far. I heard a guy yelling, 'Help me, somebody help me.' He was screaming, then I saw a lot of police cars backing up to this spot."
This is the first homicide in the Halifax Regional Municipality this year.
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